• The great lengths sexual refugees will go for safety: “Two gay men from Bangladesh who offered to have sex before Australian immigration officials to prove their sexuality will appeal their case for protection visas for the fourth time in 10 years. The men, who cannot be named, told The Daily Telegraph they feared being killed if their latest bid for refugee status is refused at a hearing later this month.”

• Everything you want to know about activists and accused embezzler couple Phyllis Stevens and Marla Stevens can be found by — of course! — reading their old blog posts.

• Dr. George Abela, the president of Malta (that island nation between Europe and Africa), tells the International Lesbian and Gay Association Europe, repeats calls for acceptance of sexual minorities and ending discrimination.

• A not so unimportant fact from a profile of Regent/Here Media: “Here Media is a publicly held – but delisted and unprofitable – company owned primarily by [Stephen] Jarchow and his longtime business partner, Paul Colichman, 49, who lives in Los Angeles.”

It’s Taipei, not Taipai… To be honest, even though gay rights in Taiwan are way ahead of those in mainland China, I feel fortunate that the mainland’s relative lack of religious freedom keeps these nutcases in the closet where they belong.